Sadyr Japarov, the Kyrgyz President has dismissed the prime minister, Akylbek Japarov, according to the presidential administration in a statement on Monday.
The statement which is available on the presidential website added that Japarov was “dismissed from his post due to a transfer to another position.”
Japarov had been the Kyrgyz prime minister since 2021.
Currently, the president has assigned the prime ministerial duties to First Deputy Prime Minister Adylbek Kasymaliyev, the presidential administration revealed in another statement.
Kyrgyzstan –a mountainous country in Central Asia and a former Soviet Republic– has gone through significant political and social instability since its independence in 1991.
This country’s economy relies heavily on remittances from millions of migrant labourers working in Russia — this makes up a fifth of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to United Nations data.
